Some can find nice tax-season surprises
After the financial stress of the last few years, your tax return this year might offer you some of the first relief you've had in a long time, but it also might deliver some disappointment.
It's crunch time for the Kings and Sacramento future
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This arena conversation has always been about us. Our community. Our region. Our leaders. Our commitment to keeping the Sacramento Kings - the area's only major league sports franchise and ability to solve the $400 million financing puzzle in an unconventional, innovative manner.
After loss to Rangers, Timonen offers harsh assessment of Flyers
The players always know first. They don't always say it as clearly as Kimmo Timonen did Saturday afternoon, but they always know whether their team has what it takes to compete for a championship.
Peyton Manning reports: Truth or fiction?
Peyton Manning can't throw a football well or strong or seemingly to his left at all, the NFL Network's Michael Lombardi reported this week in similar manner to other reports the previous week.
Peyton may be back, but not with 'Boys
Because he is Jerry Jones - wildcatter, dreamer, frustrated general manager of the Dallas Cowboys - the idea is not all that far-fetched that he would at least kick the tires on Peyton Manning.
Time for Wild to show some pride
The Wild logo is stitched in the carpet in the center of the locker room. Wild players, particularly a few veterans, take delight in berating anyone who has the audacity to dip a toe over the line, on accident or even if the guilty party is unaware of the unwritten rule.
Antron Brown favored to win top-fuel title
LOS ANGELES-On Feb. 21, it will be two years since Antron Brown and Susan Zimmer never met and became joined forever. It was Brown's 200th-something National Hot Rod Association event, Zimmer's first.
A little heart-to-heart on Valentine's Day
What's that scary holiday where you're encouraged to dress up, hope for a trick or a treat, and expect candy? Where chatting up a virtual stranger after dark seems normal? When whispering voices warn to be afraid, to be very afraid, especially if you're on your own?
Raising a better bebe: After the 'Tiger Mother', is America ready for the French version?
A little more than a year has passed since the publication of Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" - the paroxysm-inducing guide to raising better children through belittlement, intimidation and tyrannical music practice - and already we have version 2.0. Pamela Druckerman's "Bringing Up Bebe" alleges that it's the French who could teach indulgent, over-scheduling, helicoptering American parents a thing or two about rearing les enfants.
Connections make Verano
If there's a single car that demonstrates the benefits of General Motors Co.'s global engineering and brand strategy, it's the 2012 Buick Verano.
How far the U.S., and democracy, has fallen in Egypt
Nothing better illustrates America's sliding status in today's Arab world than Egypt's decision to try 16 Americans who work for pro-democracy groups there.
Catholics, contraception and the heretic faithful
One of my most conservative friends is Catholic, but he is not a "conservative Catholic." In my book, he'd only be a conservative Catholic if he opposed the death penalty (he supports it), opposed abortion (he believes women should have the right to chose) and engaged in natural family planning (he appreciates the fact that all women he's had sex with, including his wife, used the Pill or another artificial contraceptive to avoid unwanted pregnancy).
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